Working Hard But Not Getting Anywhere Quotes

#1. I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

#2. We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Jane Addams

#3. We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.

Kristi Bowman

#4. Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

John Hodgman

#6. How am I supposed to look unaffected and asexual with all this unfair fuckery happening?

Qwen Salsbury

#7. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Jake Wood

#8. I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.

Arizona Muse

#9. Even if things are sometimes difficult there must always be good things to look forward to. Seeing you will be one of the big good things for me.

Elise Valmorbida

#10. Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

Jamie Dornan

#11. I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Julius Erving

#12. The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

Luke Evans

#13. Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Juliet Marillier

#14. God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

George W. Bush